{"id":5511,"date":"2017-08-18T11:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.njphillipsfamily.com\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2017-08-18T11:44:07","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:44:07","slug":"great-explorers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/?p=5511","title":{"rendered":"Great Explorers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After school we went &#8216;exploring in the uncharted wilderness of Morristown, NJ&#8217;. ? We deviated from our typical walks where mommy pushes 50 pounds of people around the hilly park to a true Mommy-Andrew adventure! Andrew loved crossing the bridges, climbing down the &#8216;slipper-bee&#8217; creek banks to touch the water, choosing which trail to walk on and then running up the hills back to our car.\u00a0A few moments that especially brought a smile to my face:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Andrew touching the creek and saying, &#8216;It&#8217;s so cool! Let&#8217;s pee in it!&#8217;&#8230;and he did.<\/li>\n<li>As Andrew ran up a steep hill (It really is steep and long), he passed an older couple struggling to make their way up. He yelled &#8216;You can do it!&#8217; and sped by. ?<\/li>\n<li>As we walked together Andrew asked many times, &#8216;Can I hold your hand mommy?!&#8217;&#8230;. If you go visit Jockey Hollow you can find where my heart melted right there on the spot!\u2764\ufe0f\u2764\ufe0f<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A rocky start but nothing some goldfish and apple sauce couldn&#8217;t take care of!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6227.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5513\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6227-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6227-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6227-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6227-768x577.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6228.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-5519\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6228-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"944\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6228-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6228-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6227.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5518\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6229.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6229.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6229-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6229-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6230.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5517\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6230.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6230-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6230-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6235.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5516\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6235.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6235-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6235-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6233.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5514\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6233.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1069\" height=\"1427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6233.jpg 1069w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6233-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6233-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6233-767x1024.jpg 767w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1069px) 100vw, 1069px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6236.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5515\" src=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"3024\" height=\"4032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6236.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6236-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_6236-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After school we went &#8216;exploring in the uncharted wilderness of Morristown, NJ&#8217;. ? 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Andrew loved crossing the bridges, climbing down the &#8216;slipper-bee&#8217; creek banks to touch the water, choosing which trail to walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5521,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5511\/revisions\/5521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/njphillipsfamily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}